Animal Care and Wellbeing Grants Fund supports researchers and zoo and aquarium staff through research and new training development to improve animal care, management, health, and wellbeing in AZA facilities.
Conservation Grants Fund supports AZA, accredited zoos and aquariums, and collaborators in conservation, science, and education projects advancing SAFE: Saving Animals From Extinction species programs.
AZA SAFE Granting Program supports AZA members and partner organizations in collaborative projects that implement species conservation plans and advance regional or global recovery priorities.
The 2026 ASPCA Research Grants fund innovative research to improve animal welfare in veterinary care, shelter practices, cruelty prevention, farm animal welfare, trauma, and animal behavior.
ASP Melinda Novak Primate Welfare Grant supports researchers testing innovative welfare ideas to improve nonhuman primates' lives in captive, semi-free-ranging, and wild settings.
AWI Implementing Refinement Grant supports animal care staff, veterinarians, students, and researchers in putting practical changes into use to improve research animals’ welfare beyond basic needs.